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“I exported the personal file folders from my desktop and imported them into my laptop. Now I have many duplicate messages. Obviously I did not select the correct option. How do I remove them other than one at a time?” You could a duplicate remover, but for imports, where the last modified date is going to be very close and no new mail was … [Read more...] about Tip 684: Search for Duplicates
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Tip 683: Add to the Location Field
An Outlook user recently asked how to add frequently used locations to the location field in meeting requests. While it’s not possible to add addresses to the location field permanently, the 10 most recently used locations should be saved in the list. The last 10 locations can be selected from the drop down box. You can either click on the triangle at the far right end of the … [Read more...] about Tip 683: Add to the Location Field
Tip 682: Mail Merge Categories
It seems like the words “mail merge from contacts” causes eyes to glaze over and users to freak out. I don’t know why. It’s actually really easy to do. But I get a lot of questions about it, especially at this time of year (holiday letter time).To show users how really simple it is to being a mail merge from Contacts, I created a video tutorial. Look for it at Using Mail … [Read more...] about Tip 682: Mail Merge Categories
Tip 680: Select Contacts for Journaling
The method most people use to select contacts for automatic journal activities, is to go to Tools, Options, Journal options and manually click each contact to include them in the automatic journal activities.It’s clumsy and slow. The other method in that dialog is to use the space bar and down arrow – down arrow to move the cursor and the space bar to select it. It's just as … [Read more...] about Tip 680: Select Contacts for Journaling
Tip 679: Compressed weekend substitute
An Outlook user had this to say about the lack of compressed weekends in Outlook 2007: “I am in Month view most of the time. It would make it much easier to distinguish weekdays and weekends in Month view if I could shade weekends in the same manner you shade working hours on a day view. This wasn't necessary in 2003(and before) because of compressed weekend views. … [Read more...] about Tip 679: Compressed weekend substitute